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Daniel Yves Alfred Gélin (19 May 1921 – 29 November 2002) was a French actor. Gélin was born in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, the son of Yvonne (née Le Méner) and Alfred Ernest Joseph Gélin. When he was ten, his family moved to Saint-Malo where Daniel went to college until he was expelled for 'uncouthness'. His father then found him a job in a shop that sold cans of salted cod. It was seeing the shooting of Marc Allégret's film Entrée des artistes that triggered his desire to go to Paris to train to be an actor. He trained at the Cours Simon in Paris before entering the Conservatoire national d'art dramatique. There he met Louis Jouvet and embarked on a theatrical career. He made his first film appearance in 1940 in Miquette and for several years was an extra or played small roles in French films. He appeared with Jean Gabin and Marlene Dietrich in Martin Roumagnac (1946). He won his first leading role in Rendez-vous de juillet (1949). From that time, he went on to appear in more than 150 films, including Max Ophüls' films La Ronde (1950) and Le Plaisir (1952), Jacques Becker's Édouard et Caroline (1951), Sacha Guitry's films Si Versailles m'était conté (Royal Affairs in Versailles) (1954) and Napoléon (1955), Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Jean Cocteau's Le Testament d'Orphée (1960), Le souffle au cœur (Murmur of the Heart) (1971), and La Nuit de Varennes (That Night in Varennes) (1982). He also wrote and directed one film, The Long Teeth, in 1952. Gélin was a leading man in French cinema during the 1950s, but his career declined with the coming of the New Wave. He worked in theater for several years, but later found new success on screen as a character actor. He appeared extensively in French films and television productions from the 1970s until his death, often playing cynical characters or grumpy old men. In 1946, Gélin married actress Danièle Delorme with whom he had a son, actor, director and producer Xavier Gélin. They divorced in 1954. While still married to Delorme, he had an affair with 17 year old model Marie Christine Schneider that produced a daughter, Maria Schneider. Due to his status as a married man, Gélin could not recognize Maria as his daughter. He visited the child several times but eventually severed his relationship with her mother. Maria Schneider and Daniel Gélin reconnected when she was sixteen and came to visit him. They remained in contact, although their relationship was irregular. Gélin was married to model Sylvie Hirsch from 1954 until their divorce in 1968. This marriage produced three children, Pascal (who died aged one year), Fiona , and Manuel, the latter two also becoming actors. In 1973, he remarried to Lydie Zaks with whom he had a daughter, Laura. Gélin died in Paris on 29 November 2002 of kidney failure. Source: Article "Daniel Gélin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1921-05-19
- event Death Date 2002-11-29
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 5.7
- info Birth Place Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
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7.5
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1956-05-16
5.7
Trop c'est trop
1975-06-05
5.1
Season of Peace in Paris
1981-07-01
6.8
Life Is a Long Quiet River
1988-02-03
7
The Sleeping Car Murder
1965-11-17
7.2
Is Paris Burning?
1966-10-26
3.5
Port of Desire
1958-08-13
6.2
Mister Frost
1990-04-10
6.8
We Will All Meet in Paradise
1977-11-09
6.8
The Night of Varennes
1982-05-15
7.1
Murmur of the Heart
1971-04-27
7.7
Testament of Orpheus
1960-02-18
7.5
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
1994-03-09
6.3
Napoleon
1955-03-25
7.6
Le Plaisir
1952-02-29
7.3
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
1988-11-30
5.4
No Pockets in a Shroud
1974-10-25
6.3
Young Love
1951-11-14
6.1
Plucking the Daisy
1956-07-25
5.4
Les Dents longues
1953-03-15
6
The Suspended Vocation
1978-07-27
7.3
La Ronde
1950-09-27
5.3
The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
1991-04-24
5.3
The Moment of Truth
1952-10-22
6.1
Line of Demarcation
1966-05-25
7
Strangers in the House
1942-05-16
0
Soyez les bienvenus
1942-07-08
6.5
Her First Affair
1941-08-14
5
Radio Surprises
1940-05-08
6.8
On Trial
1954-06-04
6.1
The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
1944-05-26
6.2
Woman of Rome
1954-10-27
0
La Nuit de Sybille
1947-03-05
0
The Woman in Red
1947-05-21
6
Men, Women: A User's Manual
1996-08-28
0
The Hell of Lost Pilots
1949-08-18
5.9
The Children
1985-02-01
6.7
Venom and Eternity
1952-01-25
5.5
Hitch-Hike
1962-03-16
6.6
Martin Roumagnac
1946-12-18
5.4
Three Days to Live
1958-03-12
5.7
Rendezvous in July
1949-12-06
4
Obsession
1997-08-28
5
Warrior Spirit
1994-01-07
4.7
Lovers' Net
1955-01-18
4
Black Sun
1966-12-10
6.6
Uncertain Verification
1965-04-30
6.3
Mirror
1947-05-02
3.2
Killing Cars
1986-02-13
9
L'Enquête du 58
1945-11-04
4.3
The Sultans
1966-05-06
4.4
Dandin
1988-01-20
5
Coup de jeune
1993-04-07
5.5
Roulez jeunesse !
1993-04-28
0
The summer of all sorrows
1989-03-08
5.1
Carthage in Flames
1960-01-29
6.1
Shadows of Adultery
1961-04-13
6.4
Edward and Caroline
1951-04-06
2
Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise !
1979-12-19
4.9
Dirty Hands
1951-08-09
5.2
Rue de l'Estrapade
1953-04-14
5.5
A Friend Will Come Tonight
1946-04-09
3.2
Les Bidochon
1996-07-07
4.8
Signé Furax
1981-04-01
5
Ghost with Driver
1996-03-20
6.7
Witness Out of Hell
1967-06-28
6.2
The Police Serve the Citizens?
1973-09-06
5.2
Swedish Fly Girls
1971-08-20
6.3
There's Always a Price Tag
1957-09-18
5.2
Adorable Creatures
1952-01-02
0
Love in a Hot Climate
1954-05-14
6
This Desired Body
1959-04-17
3.5
À belles dents
1966-07-05
0
Une femme d'action
1997-12-01
0
An Affair of States
1966-02-25
5.6
Too Many Lovers
1957-12-11
0
Schwüle Tage
1978-12-17
5
Guy de Maupassant
1982-04-14
5
Three Girls in Paris
1963-10-12
6
Far from Dallas
1972-06-28
2
Blitz
1985-03-13
0
Public Opinion
1954-02-26
5.8
Slogan
1969-07-27
4
Lucrèce
1943-12-15
2
Règlements de compte
1963-03-05
6.1
The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall
1965-03-17
0
La jalousie
1976-04-21
0
Pétition
1987-01-01
6.4
Voice of Silence
1953-04-01
6.8
Royal Affairs in Versailles
1954-02-10
4
Torticola versus Frankensberg
1952-04-19
6
Iran: Days of Crisis
1991-09-30
2
Mauvaise fille
1991-01-23
0
Ariane
1974-12-01
2.7
Sadistic Hallucinations
1969-07-30
5.7
The Temptation of Barbizon
1946-03-13
5.2
The Hour of Truth
1965-04-28
5
Les Cadets de l'océan
1945-11-14
5
Follow Me Young Man
1958-12-03
6.2
God Needs Men
1950-10-03
6.6
Dialogues of the Exiles
1975-04-23
0
Public Security
1987-06-17
3.8
Via Montenapoleone
1987-03-13
0
The Truce
1968-01-01
5
De force avec d'autres
1993-04-24
5.7
The Cheerful Squadron
1954-12-05
5.6
Mort en fraude
1957-04-09
0
I'll Get Back to Kandara
1956-12-20
1
Julie la rousse
1959-08-12
5.2
The Season for Love
1961-06-12
0
Pushing the Limits
1994-03-16
4.5
How to Make a French Dish
1964-01-29
5.8
Runaways
1995-08-23
0
Miquette
1940-05-01
0
Réveille-toi, chérie
1961-07-12
5.4
Stain on the Snow
1954-02-19
0
Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "La Ronde"
2008-01-01
0
Working with Max Ophuls: Daniel Gélin on "Le Plaisir"
2008-09-16
8
In the Mouth of the Wolf
1961-06-20
5.5
À l'abri des regards indiscrets
2002-01-01
0
Max Ophüls - Den schönen guten Waren
1990-09-03
4
The Murdered Model
1948-03-10
6
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1988-11-22
0
Good Evening Paris
1956-12-14
5.5
The Slave
1953-09-02
0
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
1960-08-26
6.8
Destroy, She Said
1969-09-25
0
La légende cruelle
1951-02-28
6
The Servant
1970-01-21
4
The Most Beautiful Month
1968-06-26
0
Max par Marcel: Lola Montès
2009-10-27
7
Double assassinat dans la Rue Morgue
1973-06-02
6.2
Cherchez l'idole
1964-02-26
0
Maid in Paris
1956-01-20
5.6
Portuguese Vacation
1963-10-09
0
Un enfant dans la ville
1971-12-12
5.2
Promotion canapé
1990-10-10
0
Poorly Extinguished Fires
1994-01-12
0
La Discorde
1978-03-22
0
Chicago Digest
1951-07-24
0
Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
1954-04-15
0
Les murs
1964-06-04
6
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975-01-12
7.7
Arsène Lupin
1971-03-18
10
Midi Première
1975-01-06
4
The Legacy of Guldenburgs
1987-01-29
3.5
Le Tiroir secret
1986-12-05
8
Le Grand Échiquier
1972-01-12
4.9
Marc et Sophie
1987-09-05
6
Numéro un
1975-04-05
0
Système 2
1975-01-19
8
Cinépanorama
1956-02-04
8.4
Les Nuls, l'émission
1990-10-13
6
Les Saintes Chéries
1965-10-09
2
Tarendol
1980-01-01
6
Der große Preis
1974-09-05
2
Reflets de Cannes
1954-03-25
6.2
Sacrée soirée
1987-09-02